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We study the evolution of US mortgage credit supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the mortgage market … frictions and operational bottlenecks contributed to unusually inelastic credit supply, and that technology-based lenders … flow of credit in the conforming segment. …
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We study the evolution of US mortgage credit supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the mortgage market … frictions and operational bottlenecks contributed to unusually inelastic credit supply, and that technology-based lenders … flow of credit in the conforming segment …
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alternative theory that argues that information issues endemic to home mortgages, where lenders negotiate with large numbers of …. Consistent with the theory, we show that as the informational asymmetries between borrowers and lenders became less severe over …
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The authors evaluate laws designed to protect borrowers from foreclosure. They find that these laws delay but do not prevent foreclosures. They first compare states that require lenders to seek judicial permission to foreclose with states that do not. Borrowers in judicial states are no more...
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We evaluate the effects of laws designed to protect borrowers from foreclosure. We find that these laws delay but do not prevent foreclosures. We first compare states that require lenders to seek judicial permission to foreclose with states that do not. Borrowers in judicial states are no more...
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We document the fact that servicers have been reluctant to renegotiate mortgages since the foreclosure crisis started in 2007, having performed payment-reducing modifications on only about 3 percent of seriously delinquent loans. We show that this reluctance does not result from securitization:...
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We evaluate the effects of laws designed to protect borrowers from foreclosure. We find that these laws delay but do not prevent foreclosures. We first compare states that require lenders to seek judicial permission to foreclose with states that do not. Borrowers in judicial states are no more...
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